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Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, flew into New York for a fortnight's U.S. visit, was greeted by i) Francis Cardinal Spellman, 2) newsmen, who goggled at the visitor's British version (bowl-on-a-platter-style) Roman hat. Cardinal Spellman brightly declared that he would buy Cardinal Griffin a new one, U.S. style, later informed the press: "The matter has already been taken care...
Yellowknife, spread out over a rocky peninsula and the hub of a 200-sq.-mi. staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds...
Harry S. Truman gladdened the heart of a Washington visitor who admired his silver-streaked black bow tie. The visitor -Connecticut Publisher William J. Pape -yearned for one just like it. But there was none, said the President; he therefore lent the tie to Pape for a night. White House Secretary Charles Ross took pains to keep things quite clear. "He has it on loan," he emphasized. "We expect him to return...
Bernard M. Baruch, whose fair-weather office as wartime presidential adviser was a Washington park bench, was back on the bench, but this time in Manhattan's Central Park. The U.S. representative to U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission conducted Visitor Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to it, observed: "Oh, oh-someone's taken the office." But the woman with the baby carriage moved away...
General Hideki Tojo got a language lesson while awaiting trial. When the lesson was over the ex-Premier knew just about as much as anybody else. Just what did "Hubba, hubba" mean, he asked a visitor from the American prosecution staff. " 'Hurry up,' " obliged the visitor. "Ah, so," murmured Tojo, "... I always thought it meant 'Remember Pearl Harbor...